Flambeau



(No Model.)

E. F. VAUGHN &z C-STATES.

FLAMBEAU.

Patented June 21, 1887.

witnesses blow-pipe.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.,

EDGAR F. VAUGHN AND CHRISTIAN STATES, OF TOPEKA, KANSAS.

FLAMBEAU.

SPECIFICATION fei-ming part of Letters Patent No. 365,254, dated June 21, 1887.

Application filrd December 14. 1886. Serial N0. 921,499. (No model.)

T0 @ZZ whom it may concern:

The opposite end of this tube is closed and Be it known that wc, EDGAR F. VAUGHN passes vertically through the lycopodiumand CHRISTIAN STATES, citizens of the United States, residing at Topeka, in the county of Shawnee and State of Kansas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Flambeaus; and we do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention has relation to improvements inflambeaus; anditconsists in the construction, novel arrangement, and adaptation of devices, as will be hereinafter morefully set forth, and particularly pointed out in the claims appended.

The object of our invention is to improve a flambeau, in which the objectionable use of valves might be dispensed with, to render a more perfect combustion by an arrangement of fiues or drafttubes, and to avoid the perineation of the oil into the lycopodinnrchamber and its passages, and also to prevent the entrance of the lycopodium back into the These objects we aceomplishby the means shown and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a representation of a longitudinal central section of our improved flambeau. Fig. 2 is aperspective View of the same. Fig. 3 is a eross-sectional view of the oil-chamber, showing the lycopodium-tube and surrounding chamber.

Referring by letter to the accompanying drawings, A indicates the staff or handle, which is of atubular form. To the upper end of this hollow staff is secured the lycopodiumchamber A', which may be of any suitable shape, and preferably of an approximately hem-ispherieal form, with its flat side uppermost. This lycopodiunrchamber is provided with a central vertical apertnre in its upper wall, and this apertnre is provided with an externally-threaded lip, a, which is designed to engage an internally-threaded lip on the bottom of the oil-chamber when the same are to be connected, as will be hereinafter more fully described.

B indicates a blow-tube, which extends at a suitable point from the hollow handle, and is provided with a mouth-piece, I), as shown.

chamber to the base of the threaded li-p (b. This tubeis also provided, near its upper end, with a series of lateral perforations,\vl1icl1 are covered with wire-gauze, as shown, so as to pre vent the return of the lycopodium,and also the entrance of moisture to the said tube and into the lycopodiunrchamber. This tube B is surrounded within the lycopodiumchamber by a tube, C, which is also closed at its upper end, and provided at its base with lateral perforations having a gauze covering similar to that at the upper end of the blow-tube. It will be observed that while these two tubes B O extend to the top of the lycopodiunr chamber, yet they do not close the aperture therein,but have a surrounding passage, (Z, for the egress of the lyeopodium or other intlammable powder. Thus it will be seen that when air is blown in at the mouth-piece into the tube B it will pass out through the gauze covered apertures at the upper portion of the said tube, and before entering thelycopodiu mchamber must descend within the surrounding tube C, thereby preventing the accidental entrance of the intlammable powder into the blow-tube and mouth of the operator while breathing inward.

E indicates the oil-chamber, which is arranged above the lycopodium-chamber, and is provided with the fillingaperture C', having a threaded cap, as shown. This chamber is provided with the obliquely-direeted wicktubes e e e, extending from the upper wall t11ereof,and a central vertical lycopodiunrtube, F, which is of less height than the wick-tubes and communicates at its lower end by means of the passage d' with the lyeopodium-chanr ber. This lyeopodium-tube in the oil-chamber is surrounded by a tube, G, which has communication with the open air, as will be presently explained. This surrounding tube G has a twofold function. It first serves to prevent the sweat from the oil in the chamber E from permeating into the lycopodium-chamber A', and also as a central draft to feed the flame at the concentrie wick-tubes.

Between the adjacent sides of the oil and lycopodium ehambers is an interspaee, H, which is formed by interposing stays between the said Chambers. These stays arepreferably IOCI - that sweat or moisture which might permeate the walls of these chambers will be taken up by the passage of air around them, thereby preventing the contact of such with the lyeopodium-chamber or any of its attachments.

I indicates a deflector plate or Shield, which is arranged around the-wick-tubes, and also around the lyeopodium and draft tubes, as shown. The threaded lip K, at the base of the OiIchamber, serves through the medium of the lip a to form aconnection between theoil and lyeopodium chambers. The lower end of the staff is also provided with a stopper or cap to form a sweat trap and a means for the ready removal of the coudensed moisture of the v breath.

The operation is as follows: The chamber Ahaving been filled with lyeopodium or other inflammable pow der, and the upper chamber with kerosene or the like, the wicks are properly adjusted in their tubes and the two chambers united by the threaded lips or a canscrew. The wicks are then lighted and the mouth-piece placed to the lips. A smart blast blown in at this point will carry the air to the top of the blow-tube, where it passes out j through the lateral gauze-covered apertures into the surrounding annular chamber, and out through the lower lateral apertures of the latter into the lyeopodium-chamber, when it takes the course .indicated by the arrows, carrying a sufficient quantity of the lyeopodium up through the central communicating tube in the oil-chamber and discharges the same into the flame at the desired point.

In some cases it is desirable, and in many cases preferable, toomit the blow-tube from the base of the lyeopodium-chamber to the inner end of the mouth branch, thus using the hollow staff for a blow-pipe. tion is fully shown in Fig. 1 of the drawings.

Having described this invention, what we claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent.

1. The combination of an oil-chamber and a lyeopodium-chamber separated by an airspace, the lyeopodium-chamber being provided with air-tubes, a tube passing through the oil-chamber and communicating with' the last-named tubes, and being surrounded by an air-space within the oil-chamber, substantially as specified.

2. The combination of an oil-chamber and a lyeopodium chamber separated by an airspace, the lycopodiunvchamber being pro-' vided with air-tubes, a tube passing through the oil-chamber and communicating with the lastnamed tubes, and being surrounded by an air-space within the oil-chamber, and the burner-tubes, substantially as specified.

3. The combination of an oil-chamber and a lycopodium-chamber separated by an airspace, the lyeopodiumchamber provided with air-tubes, atube passing through the oilchamber and communicating with the lastnamed tubes, and being surrounded by an airspace within the oi1-chamber, the handle with the air-passage communicating with the airtubes in the lyeopodium-chamber, and the burner-tubes, .substantially as specified.

Intestimony whereof I affix my signature in presence oftwo witnesses.

- EDGIAR 1x VAUGHN. CHRISTIAN STATES.

VVitnesses:

ROBT. S. BELL, W. E. BRUBAKER.

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